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The Stanford CS101 class starts today if anyone wants to join it.

"CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. The course uses small coding experiments in the browser to play with the nature of computers, understanding their strengths and limitations."

http://cs101-class.org
 
I think once I've finished my current degree, and qualified professionally, I'll look into some of these more. Shame that's about 4-5 years down the line still...

Looks like it could make an interesting Summer though...

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Well it's the MIT Electronics finals tomorrow. I'm absolutely bricking it but I'm sure it'll be fine.

Only trouble is now my parents have told everyone and my wifes family are completely aware... I mean even my father in-laws entire office knows about me being in this. So yeah, no pressure at all.

It's been a fantastic course though. I'd love to know if any OcUK lads stuck through the time sponge. My wife is about ready to divorce me from the lack of a husband for the past few months.
 
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Well it's the MIT Electronics finals tomorrow. I'm absolutely bricking it but I'm sure it'll be fine.

Only trouble is now my parents have told everyone and my wifes family are completely aware... I mean even my father in-laws entire office knows about me being in this. So yeah, no pressure at all.

It's been a fantastic course though. I'd love to know if any OcUK lads stuck through the time sponge. My wife is about ready to divorce me from the lack of a husband for the past few months.
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I stuck with it, although let some of the homeworks slip and so entering the final exam I needed 93% to get the overall 87% needed for an A grade...

As I'm not at home this weekend I've already done the final exam but unfortunately made too many mistakes so no A grade for me :(

Its been good though, challenging and so much time needed but I've learnt a lot (although clearly not enough judging by some of the questions on the final :p). I'm thinking come 'fall' I'll be taking a new course with the new edx system, possibly a repeat of this to try to understand some of it better but we'll see what's available...

Good luck with the final exam, same to anyone else still yet to do it :)
 
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Thanks a lot SKILL! Well done for making it all the way through and getting a decent grade on the exam. I think we've got some pretty good material from them. Definitely buying a 'just for kicks' MIT t-shirt.

I just finished the exam and boy does it feel like a relief to have finished. The hope for an A was possible but in the end it was just too far. I managed to get 81% for the course total but that was just 6% shy of an A.

I think the power of an MIT certificate on the CV was a big draw but I'll look forward to taking other courses now without the need for a certificate.

I'd love to find an advanced engineering mathematics review course.
 
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Congrats :)

Yeah, Initially the draw was the MIT 'name' on my CV, and that's good and all but I actually enjoyed doing more academic learning again, especially something that really pushed my abilities at times, mostly on the maths side of things.

It would be good to see a more advanced maths course, I found I started to struggle with the first order differential stuff but could just about handle it, then I was pretty lost with the second order stuff, but with more time I started to get a basic handle on it just by the point we were told we barely needed it anymore :p But a much better ability to do the maths I think would help tremendously :)
 
Yesterday, Coursera increased their catalogue to 111 courses from 16 universities. You can find the entire list of courses over at https://www.coursera.org/courses

These courses will soon be added to Class Central's catalogue, but until then here's a list of upcoming Coursera courses categorized by the month they start in.

July 2012 (6)
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Introduction to Finance
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
Software Engineering for SaaS
Listening to World Music

August 2012 (6)
Algorithms, Part I
Calculus: Single Variable
Cryptography
Gamification
Machine Learning
Introduction to Sustainability

September 2012 (23)
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Mathematical Biostatistics Bootcamp
Computer Architecture
Computing for Data Analysis
Computer Vision: From 3D Reconstruction to Visual Recognition
Securing Digital Democracy
Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes
Human-Computer Interaction
Heterogeneous Parallel Programming
Introduction to Logic
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Model Thinking
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Greek and Roman Mythology
Networked Life
Neural Networks for Machine Learning
An Introduction to Operations Management
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Learn to Program: The Fundamentals
Social Network Analysis
Statistics One
A History of the World since 1300

October 2012 (6)
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2
Community Change in Public Health
Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Principles of Obesity Economics
Vaccine Trials: Methods and Best Practices

November 2012 (4)
Algorithms, Part II
Drugs and the Brain
Introduction to Astronomy
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

January 2013 (18)
Artificial Intelligence Planning
Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Clinical Problem Solving
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Galaxies and Cosmology
Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
Cryptography II
Data Analysis
Principles of Economics for Scientists
E-learning and Digital Cultures
An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health
Chemistry: Concept Development and Application
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I
Health for All Through Primary Care
Introductory Human Physiology
Introduction to Philosophy
Neuroethics
Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

February 2013 (4)
Aboriginal Worldviews and Education
Digital Signal Processing
Analytic Combinatorics, Part I
Introduction to Sociology

March 2013 (3)
A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior
Analytic Combinatorics, Part II
Medical Neuroscience

To Be Announced (40)
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
Analytical Chemistry
Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps
Automata
Cardiac Arrest, Hypothermia, and Resuscitation Science
Compilers
Computational Investing, Part I
Computational Photography
Control of Mobile Robots
Computer Science 101
Planet Earth
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
Energy 101
Equine Nutrition
Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application
Game Theory
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
Introduction to Genome Science
Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship
How Things Work 1
Information Security and Risk Management in Context
Introduction à la Programmation Objet (in French)
Know Thyself
The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness
Microeconomics Principles
The Modern World: Global History since 1760
Nanotechnology: The Basics
Basic Behavioral Neurology
Natural Language Processing
Introductory Organic Chemistry - Part 1
Introductory Organic Chemistry - Part 2
Intermediate Organic Chemistry - Part 1
Intermediate Organic Chemistry - Part 2
Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code
Rationing and Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Scientific Computing
Computer Vision: The Fundamentals
VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout
 
Oh, nice thread! For some reason it never occurred to me that universities would be offering full, timetabled online courses for free instead of just course materials and the like...hmm.

One place I've not seen mentioned yet is the NPTEL in India, it represents a pretty great resource I think. It can be a bit hit or miss at the moment as a lot of the courses just have a syallabus available for now and no materials/video lectures, but they seem to have gone into overdrive in terms of adding new content since June so hopefully that will increasingly become a thing of the past. You can also head over to their channel on Youtube and search through the playlists there, that's how I came across them myself when searching for videos related to civil engineering and I was blown away by how much content they've made available.
 
I've started "Machine Learning" on Coursera, although I missed the first week due to a holiday so frantically trying to catch up. Also signed up to Artificial Intelligence on EDX.

Really impressed so far by the content; albeit glad there's a discussion forum for brushing up on secondary school calculus!
 
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I've started "Machine Learning" on Coursera, although I missed the first week due to a holiday so frantically trying to catch up. Also signed up to Artificial Intelligence on EDX.
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Do you know whether you can register for the course late and still get the certificate? There are a few I'd like to do on there including that ML course so I might choose another (probabilistic graphical models in September looks god too) and wait until the ML one is offered again as it would be nice to get a certificate for it too.
 
Has anyone come across any online guide for learning the basics of Italian? Been meaning to start learning for a while now but I've yet to come across anything to get started. Otherwise any pointers would be appreciated :)
 
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